It's such a shame that FlashMeeting let us down right in the middle of Hungary giving their votes!
What happened before this Europe-wide server crash is still worth watching, so as usual here's the link to (what remains of) the recording of the Live Video Conference for Schoolovision 2017:http://flashmeeting.e2bn.net/fm/0c6ea8-19440

Sunday, 7 May 2017

Enjoy the collection of short clips from the videos of all 33 countries that participated this year. You are kindly invited to share a link to this website, write encouraging comments below our video posts and contact us via eTwinning Live or by commenting here if your country is not represented yet and you would like to join us for the 10th anniversary of Schoolovision in 2018.

Friday, 5 May 2017

The vocal studio "Caramel" of Cherkasy
gymnasia 31 is very glad to be aboard this adventure ship called Schoolovision 2017 ! We’ve set sail to some of the planet’s best kept secrets: Love,
Friendship, Peace, Understanding, Happiness.

Our song is an
appeal to protect our planet, to make it the best place to live in. Everything
depends on us, there are millions of us! The world that we live in is beautiful
and fragile. We should remember that Earth needs to be saved every single day,
realize the importance of taking care of our planet. It’s the only home Earth.
Planet Earth may be at greater risk than ever before with the emergence of
dramatic impact that humankind has had on the natural world within his own
lifetime.

We are holding our
planet

In the palms of
mine and yours,

Let us save the
Earth together

Without fights,without
wars.

We are holding our planet

In the palms and hearts of gold

Drums of joyfulness are playing

We are millions in the world

We are singing why protecting our planet is vital and
why it is our responsibility to save and preserve it. There are millions of us
who are holding our planet in the palms!

Here comes our song. Now our song is sung in Icelandic and it is called Tonight. This time, it's the boys who take care of Iceland's contribution with the help of two girls. They are in 6th grade or 11 years old. The sport teacher helped with the recording of the melody and the computer teacher helped with the editing. Student's teachers helped with the video recording. The song focuses on love and the night and was one of the songs that participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in Iceland this year. The video is taken in the school's environment, but we have a beautiful environment that we are so proud to show you like the beach, the lava, the lake, the brook, the clear climate and more. We are proud to be in this project and it is always exciting to see the other videos from you.

Hello everybody from the Czech Republic. We are happy to be a part of Schoolovision family. Our song is written by Inka Rybarova again and it is about a goldfish - maybe you can find it in Brno dam...
The video is a work of Marek Novotny, our former pupil and a student of the Secondary School of Art and Design here in Brno. We hope you will enjoy it.

It's been exciting until the last moments!
The lyrics were written by a few pupils and edited by teachers. The piano teacher from Art School in Ivanka pri Dunaji then made the music. Two parents helped our enthusiastic teachers and superb kids to record the voices, film the video and edit everything. All the participants really enjoyed making the song, so we hope you will feel the energy :-)
Good luck to everyone!

The pupils in Vikingaåsens skola 3rd and 5th grade proudly present their entry to Schoolovision 2017:
You can do it too!

We live in the Åland Islands, a beautiful archipelago situated midway between Sweden and Finland. Åland is an autonomous, demilitarized (no military allowed) and Swedish-speaking region in Finland. Åland has 29 000 inhabitants, and 11 000 of them live in the only town, Mariehamn. Åland has its very own flag.

The music to our song was composed especially for this occasion by our music teacher Fredrik Erlandsson. The lyrics were written by all the pupils in 5th grade. It partly tells about Åland and the importance of the sea, partly about how you can do everything and if you don’t succeed at once – just keep on trying!

We hope you’ll enjoy watching our video as much as we enjoyed making it!

Refrain 1
Here´s what we like to do – dance and sing – you can do it too!
Here´s what we like to do – kick a ball – you can do it too!
Here´s what we like to do – ride a bike – you can do it too!
Here´s what we like to do – rabbit jump – just keep on trying!

Verse 2
The Åland Islands are between
Finland and Sweden and it seems,
like they are floating in the sea.
People are coming from all around,
you can hear it in the sound,
this is a peaceful place to be.

Refrain 2
Here´s what we like to do – swim and dive – you can do it too!
Here´s what we like to do – jump around – you can do it too!
Here´s what we like to do – play some games – you can do it too!
Here´s what we like to do – catch a fish – just keep on trying!

Refrain 3
Here´s what we like to do- å-e-å- you can do it too!
- Just keep on trying!

This year's contribution is centered around the theme of refugees. The pupils want the world to know that we sympathize with the refugees coming to Norway, and that we want to do our best to include them in our school and in society as a whole.Here are the lyrics of the song translated into english:HeartbeatYou came sailing here in a boat, away from your home, and you cried. You were so afraid when you came to our school.You can come home with me,become my very best friend. Even though you come with big wounds.You have come ...Your heart beats, and your feet walk and walk.You have come to a city where you are new.We just want everything to be alright,so that nobody wants to leave.Refrain:No heartbeats,can pass without us seing them clearly.Nothing can strengthen morethan you coming ...You ran away from your country,tiny and scared.You came here to get peace and quietnessWe will help your wounds to heal,we want to build a bridge of friends.You are going to be here for many years ahead.

You have come ...Your heart beats, and your feet walk and walk.You have come to a city where you are new.We just want everything to be alright,so that nobody wants to leave.Refrain:No heartbeats,can pass without us seing them clearly.Nothing can strengthen morethan you coming ...

Rap/ poem in arabic. (Lyrics are in the video)

Refrain:No heartbeats,can pass without us seing them clearly.Nothing can strengthen morethan you coming ...No heartbeats,can pass without us seing them clearly.Nothing can strengthen more,than you coming home,than you coming home.

Hi from Žepče, Bosnia and Herzegovina! We're coming from the Kindergarten "Don Ivica Čondrić". Our children, our little students, are 2-6 years old. Shooting for Schoolovision was a real challenge for us because our children are very young, still, it was a lot of fun :)! All the children participated in the video and some of them recorded an audio track. Our goal was to present our country, so we chose the song "My Land Bosnia". The song speaks about the beauties of our country, hills and the sea, about our native land, clear waters and how proud of it we are. We are soooo happy to be a part of Schoolovision!

CEIP Valsequillo would like to share with you 'Under The Same Sun'. This lively entry involves singing, dancing, laughing, playing, listening, sharing, dreaming and learning in a fun way.
Moreover, we want to take advantage and highlight the importance of the world we live in, care about it and avoid its destruction. Here we show you what has been a treasure for us. The children, teachers, families and many people have collaborated with enthusiasm to make this wonderful entry possible yet again in the precious project: Schoolovision 2017.
This year we have worked with different rhythms and the students have been enriched by having recorded the video in different places on our amazing island, Gran Canaria.
We hope to transmit the light, colour and joy we want to share through this song "Under The Same Sun" by Álvaro Soler. Definitively we are all brothers "Under The Same Sun" in one world.

This year's entry from Wales is a simple song about how we feel about our country. We learnt the song not knowing it was going to be our Schoolovision entry. We just love the song! We hope you love it too!!The song was written by Rob Allen who has written many other excellent songs about Wales. He has very kindly allowed us to use the song and provided the music for us to sing to.

This year we present Serbia in a different light with trumpets and Balkan melodies, performed by our young orchestra. The trumpet is a symbol of our region, the western part of Serbia. It takes a very important place in our tradition, since the beginning of the 20th century.The theme of our funny song has a universal ecological message. It's about importance of saving our Nature and environment. Our students are involved in many ecological activities.Also we are very proud to have a successful puppet workshop in our school. Therefore, some of these puppets take part in this spot.Wish you'll have fun and enjoy our music!P.S. If you want to have a translation press the subtitle button.

Hello to everyone from the Republic of Moldova!
We present our song “ Hora from Moldova”.
We are very proud of our small but beautiful country.
We love our orchards,vineyards and fields.
We have rich and wonderful culture.
Especially we love to dance our national dances.
Hora is a kind of dance.
It is danced traditionally at every important event.
It unites people and makes them feel they are not apart. It is an old dance and reflects our identity.
Enjoy our video and song! Welcome to Moldova! Let’s sing and dance altogether!
Good luck to all participants!

Hello dear friends,the italian entry is ready.
This year we have chosen one of the most famous italian song: "Nel Blu dipinto di Blu" Volare (to Fly) because our etwinning adventure has been and still is, like a wonderful flight. Thank you to everyone and enjoy our song.

Did you know that (besides all of its previously mentioned superlatives) Kassel is also the European capital of raccoons? Since the first four animals were set out in the woods near our annual school camping paradise at lake Edersee, their population has grown rapidly. Step by step the raccoons enlarged their territory and travelled on. Today we have many, many of those cute but naughty animals living right here in Kassel with us. Only that they sleep when we wake, as it says in our song.

Their time of arrival in Kassel may have coincided with another special event in the history of our city: 30 years ago our Freie Schule Kassel was founded! We are going to celebrate this grand anniversary for a full weekend in June, probably singing along to the tune of our "Waschbär'n" song which was written especially for this event by our wonderfully creative school musicians.

Oh, I think I can hear something outside in the school garden. Let me quickly check ...

Tuesday, 2 May 2017

This is our eighth Schoolovision, which is a great challenge for us.
The song for this year is "Aldapan gora". It is a famous new song for kids in the Basque Country, nowadays.
Our 6th graders got it ready with the help of their teacher, Cristina.
Good luck to everyone!!!

Sunday, 30 April 2017

Time Expedition is about today’s kids spending most of their time using technology and various gadgets to while away the time and forgetting what is it like to play freely in the open air and being sociable. Suddenly, Ozzy the Alien, lands into a park but no one looks at him. So he yells out and shouts to them to join him in playing traditional Maltese games. Hope you will enjoy our entry! Sing with us and have fun! Good luck to all!

Friday, 28 April 2017

This year, we've chosen to sing a traditional British folk song that has been popular throughout Britain, Ireland and North America for 200 years.
We've added some Punjabi Bhangra beats to better represent the cultural diversity of our school community. Our children sit comfortably in many different cultures, and our song reflects this.
Thanks so much to Steffen for pointing out that England's entry, Raggle Taggle Gypsy, has Scottish roots. Thanks too to Michael who has gifted England this song from the Scottish borders, in true Schoolovision generosity of spirit!

There were three old gypsies came to our hall door
They came a-brave and boldly-o
And one sang high and the other sang low
And the other sang a raggle taggle gypsy-o

It was upstairs downstairs the lady went
Put on her suit of armour-o
And there was a cry from around the door
She's away wi' the raggle taggle gypsy-o

It was late that night when the Lord came in
Enquiring for his lady-o
And the servant girl she said to the Lord
"She's away wi' the raggle taggle gypsy-o"

Wednesday, 26 April 2017

Greetings from Helsingborg and Sweden!
This time last year I was very interested when Anneli Hill, and the team of Swedish teachers, told the rest of the staff about Schoolovision and showed us the entry that our PYP5 students had worked so hard on. Being an almost lifelong fan of Eurovision, I don't think our other PYP1 teacher, Magdalena Simons, was too surprised when I "convinced" her that PYP1 should enter in 2017! With her musical talents, my organisational skills and Anneli's expertise in Schoolovision, I knew we could make it happen! We were very lucky that one of the music teachers, in our school, Per Kincaid, had written a song, years ago, called "Wonder Song" and he was willing to allow us change the lyrics for the competition.
With the help of our students and many other staff we wrote "Better Together" and are very proud of what our 47 6-7 year old students have achieved!
A big thanks to Simon Vickers for filming and editing our video, to Anneli Hill for helping us to write the Swedish chorus, to Sally Drury for helping the children practice the song in music lessons, and helping us to write the song and to Mike Black for helping with everything!!
This was a zero budget production, The International School of Helsingborg is a public school in the south west of Sweden, with very passionate students, staff and parents! We are so excited about the 12th of May and look forward to hearing all of the entries and deciding how to cast our votes!
Thank you for all the lovely feedback we have already received! Best of luck, everyone!
Kind regards,
Helen MacGrath

Tuesday, 25 April 2017

The song talks about our legacy: our foods, our fathers’ teachings, factories, landscapes, all they left for us, childhood memories that we can pass on to the next generations, the future we are building together for those coming after us … about a small country we love dearly.

Monday, 24 April 2017

We are happy to have completed the video before our upcoming holidays. The children learned this song about 6 weeks ago and since then they sing it day in and day out at school. They really enjoyed the work in the recording studio, showing off dresses, being actors and actresses in our makeshift film-studio (we had to film inside since it was still very cold and unpleasant outside) and of course eating loads of chak-chak.
Chak-chak is the traditional sweet of Tatarstan which is deep fried dough rolled in honey. We attempted to represent the hybrid of Russian and Tatar culture of the region as well as our very special flair as an international school by including different musical styles, the 3 main languages spoken by our students and relating to a range of local and international fairytales. We feel extremely privileged to be part of this fantastic event and looking forward to a lot more fun to come.

Thursday, 20 April 2017

Every year, thousands of Dutch classes perform in school musicals in their final year of primary school. This song is from one of those musicals. The story is about a famous youtube personality. Everybody wants to be like him! Of course, at the end of the play, he realises that real friendship is more important than 'likes'.
This video is really our students' work. Their own ideas, their own choreography. They organized, filmed and edited everything themselves!

Oh, by the way: sorry to our Belgian neighbors for stealing your Manneken Pis. There's a mention of Brussels in the song, and somehow youtube decided to take this image for a thumbnail...

Sunday, 8 January 2017

Giving an example to the big ESC, the 2016 edition of Schoolovision was won by our Ukrainian partners.
Until the new songs for 2017 appear here you can enjoy the great performance of Cherkasy Gymnasium 31 and also browse all our previous annual websites with meanwhile several hundreds of videos from the top of the right column. Enjoy!

Saturday, 7 January 2017

If you're interested in joining us for Schoolovision 2017, do get in contact via the project list on eTwinning Live or add a comment. Below you can see which countries are participating this year and which seats are still available:

Friday, 6 January 2017

Last year, the German and Polish partners recorded "The Sky is the Limit" as a special surprise for the whole Schoolovision community. This song was quickly adopted as the official Schoolovision anthem by the SV16 team. Watch it again here and practise it with your children if you like.

Thursday, 5 January 2017

The 2017 Eurovision Song Contest final will take place in Kyiv, Ukraine on Saturday, 13 May.

Meanwhile, the 2017 edition of Schoolovision will come to its conclusion on Friday, 12 May, the day before the real Eurovision. Join us in this fun-filled project, as we find out who will be the latest Schoolovision Champions!

We are now into the 9th year of the Schoolovision journey and would like to welcome all members, new and old, to this unique eTwinning project, which guarantees fun for all participants, students and teachers alike, as we learn a bit about each others' cultures through the medium of music and song. with the added excitement of knowing that this is actually a competition.
Full rules are below; please read them carefully!

Following a similar format to the Eurovision Song Contest, Schoolovision 2017 will once again allow one primary school from all eTwinning countries wishing to participate, to record and upload a song of their choice, to be viewed by all other participants in the project.

In addition, all countries will be asked to evaluate and vote for their favourite songs after they have listened to all the others- and of course, voting for yourself will not be allowed!

You and your class will have until Friday, 5 May to decide upon your song, practise it, video it, and get it uploaded and embedded onto the project blog website, using either YouTube or Vimeo.
Once all songs are uploaded, you will need to get your class to watch all the other countries' entries and decide who will receive your votes. This should be done in the week from Friday, 5 May until Thursday, 11 May.

On Friday, 12 May 2017 you have two choices: You can either join the team for a group webcam conference, starting at 10.00 am CET time, where we will announce our votes to each other and total the votes up, so we can establish the winner. Or, if this is not possible, you will be able to watch a recording of the webcam conference afterwards to see who the winners are, or simply view the website, as the results will be posted straight after the webcam conference finishes. In any case, you will need to email your votes to Steffen, the project administrator, by Thursday evening (11 May) and NO LATER than 1800 hrs CET. Thus we will be able to successfully total all the votes from all the countries and announce who are Schoolovision champions for 2017. The winning school will be sent a specially commissioned trophy!

RULES

1. There can be one entry from each country with an independent status. Usually, this will mean one participating school per country. As a special exception, joint entries of two schools from one country are acceptable.

2. Schoolovision is for primary schools only. In addition, the participants (active singers) must be a maximum of 12 years old during the present school year. Their turning 13 in between is acceptable.

3. All previous entrants will already have received a request, asking you to confirm that you wish to enter the 2017 contest. After your confimation you will receive an invitation (via eTwinning) to become an official partner in the project, followed later by a separate invitation to contribute to the project's blog. You need to sign up for the blog, whereby you will be able to upload your finished song in due course.

In addition, please send Steffen a brief description of your school, along with a photograph and the link to your school's website, so that everyone can see which countries are participating this time.

4. The song you choose to sing should be one of your choice, hopefully chosen in collaboration with your pupils, and can be sung in any language. It can be a well-known song, or an original song that perhaps no-one else will have heard of- it's up to you! However, it MUST be connected to your country in some way. *** PLEASE BE AWARE THAT IF THE SONG HAS BEEN COPYRIGHTED, YOU MUST GET PERMISSION BEFORE USING IT.

5. Musical accompaniment is permitted but only in the following way: Members of your class (your pupils) who wish to play musical instruments can do so, and your song can have adult help who could for example, play a piano or a keyboard to lead the tune of the song. Alternatively, you can use a CD for the tune (but without the original singer's voice) - but your children MUST do the singing!

6. All entries MUST be completed and uploaded by Friday, 5 May at the latest. When your song is ready, it is your task to upload the video of your song to the project website via www.blogger.com using either the “upload video” section of the site (which is, due to the poor video quality of this option, not very recommendable) or by uploading your video to YouTube or Vimeo, then copying and pasting the embed code into your blog post. All files MUST be uploaded by Friday, 5 May, as each country will then need to watch all the entries and judge them during the following week, Monday, 8 May till Thursday, 11 May.

7. Once you and your pupils have watched each entry and chosen your favourites, please email your choices to Steffen before 1800 hrs CET on THURSDAY, 11 MAY.
YOU MUST NOT VOTE FOR YOUR OWN ENTRY!

8. It is always a great experience to receive positive and encouranging comments. By participating in this project, you also agree to encourage your pupils to write such comments under the videos of their partners. Equally, you will reserve some time to write a number of comments yourselves. You might even encourage colleagues and parents to follow your example, thus making the great work of your pupils and yourselves more known and positively regarded, just as the whole Schoolovision project.

9. In the earlier years of this project all countries' entries were listed according to their results. However, since some partners were unhappy with the unequal chances (perhaps due to different availability of technical and muscial support in the various countries), a new rule was installed in 2016. All partners can choose if they wish to be listed with the full result or if they just wish to be named including a link to their entry. The top 20 scores will be published automatically; all others may opt in to be listed with their actual results.

GOOD LUCK to all countries, and enjoy making your own and watching all the other entries, too!
May the best overall entry win the contest!

*** As said above, the whole point of Schoolovision is that you try to sing something that relates to your country. If you compose your own song- fantastic! Over the past years, we have had some really outstanding compositions by various Schoolovision teams.If you choose to sing a song that has already been recorded previously, then it MUST be culturally relevant to your own country. If you're unsure whether your song idea complies with this rule, please contact Steffen and Marek.

Turkey

Ukraine

Wales

Schoolovision History

Awards

Schoolovision has won 1st prize in several International Awards. It was triumphant in the Global Junior Challenge, the eLearning Awards and the eTwinning Awards in 2010. In 2012 it was successful at the Medea Awards. In 2013, the project was awarded a special recognition for outstanding collaboration over the period 2009 - 2013 at the European eTwinning Conference in Lisbon. Apart from this, Schoolovision received a multitude of National and International eTwinning Quality Labels as well as several National eTwinning Prizes.